Re: [fab] Non-standard kernels in the Fedora Multiverse

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On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 12:53 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Josh Boyer (jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: 
> > Ok, I'm going to stumble here a bit because I think we're coming at this
> > from two totally different viewpoints.  Bear with me.
> > 
> > What products is Fedora supposed to be supporting?  If you look at it
> > from existing kernels today, I see: stock, Xen, GFS, cman, dlm and gnbd.
> > Then we're talking about others like OLPC, CCRMA, etc.
> 
> There's a difference here. GFS/cman/dlm/gnbd are modules; they (theoretically)
> run on most any kernel.

Then they, theoretically, should be using the kmod stuff Extras came up
with.  I'll leave that for another day though :)

> 
> Xen, OLPC, and CCRMA are all variants of the kernel, involving
> patching core code and rebuilding the core kernel.
> 
> The rest of the points stand, though.

Thanks for the correction.

josh


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